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Are we challenging CX?

One of the roles we, as CX professionals, play, is that of change agents.  I realize that’s a term people toss out there when they want to seem important or progressive in business, but when you think about it, one of the core jobs we have is to challenge people to take a different perspective; [...]

By |2021-11-03T15:33:41+00:00November 3rd, 2021|Consulting, CX Strategy, CX Thoughts, Measures & Metrics, Process Engineering|Comments Off on Are we challenging CX?

Where’s your deli?

Here’s a random thought that occurred to me the other day.  I promise I’m going somewhere with it, though: The deli should be at the front of a grocery store.  Now, I’m in way over my head here, because I’m sure that there’s a lot that goes into the planning of the layout of such [...]

By |2021-10-28T14:46:39+00:00October 28th, 2021|CX Culture, CX Strategy, CX Thoughts|Comments Off on Where’s your deli?

What do you want on your Tombstone?

Do you remember the old commercial for Tombstone Pizza?  The tagline was, “What do you want your tombstone?”  (By the way, if you clicked through and it’s driving you crazy, the character actor is a fellow by the name of Oliver Muirhead, and if you also share my obsession with Seinfeld, he played Lubeck the [...]

By |2021-10-20T15:20:38+00:00October 20th, 2021|Consulting, CX Strategy, CX Thoughts, VoC|Comments Off on What do you want on your Tombstone?

Easier for whom?

As an Air Force Reservist, I’m always on the lookout for the ‘military discount’ to save a buck or two.  Many brands offer a markdown of some sort:  Flash your Common Access Card (CAC, the unnecessary obviously-has-to-be-an-acronym term we use to mean, “Military ID”) at checkout, and a lot of places knock 5, 10, or [...]

By |2021-10-13T14:38:09+00:00October 13th, 2021|Consulting, CX Strategy, CX Thoughts|Comments Off on Easier for whom?

CX is about more than competence

If you manufacture widgets, you may have market dominance based on being super-duper great at making widgets.  Perhaps you’ve got a niche in a particular type of widget or a certain feature.  Likewise, if you’re a service provider and you have perfected a certain sort of experience in delivering that service to your market, you’re [...]

By |2021-10-06T15:02:17+00:00October 6th, 2021|CX Strategy, CX Thoughts|Comments Off on CX is about more than competence

When Customer support is the problem

Nothing is 100%.  Things fail, products break, even very important services go dark from time to time.  A Customer who expects and demands perfection is certain to be disappointed pretty often, and in fact is being somewhat unreasonable, if you ask me. With this understood and its obvious importance, then, why is Customer Support so [...]

By |2021-09-22T14:55:09+00:00September 22nd, 2021|Consulting, CX Strategy, CX Thoughts|Comments Off on When Customer support is the problem

For CX success, re-evaluate your purpose

May I offer a modest suggestion about CX?  Here it is: The purpose of Customer Experience as an endeavor (a department, a practice, a field of study, etc.) is to improve the alignment between what your company says it’s all about (call it mission/vision, corporate values/principles, or simply Brand Promise) and the experience your Customers [...]

By |2021-09-15T15:04:48+00:00September 15th, 2021|Consulting, CX Strategy, CX Thoughts|Comments Off on For CX success, re-evaluate your purpose

Better than NPS? Brand Alignment Score

I’ve written previously about how silly things like Net Promotor Score’s ‘Likelihood to Recommend’ question can seem.  I think, generally, that comes more from a place of complacency than downright lunacy.  It’s more likely people are asking questions like that less because they’re off their rocker than simply because, well, that’s what everybody is asking. [...]

By |2021-09-09T15:56:20+00:00September 9th, 2021|CX Strategy, CX Thoughts, Measures & Metrics, Process Engineering|Comments Off on Better than NPS? Brand Alignment Score

Let’s ask better questions

With text analytics and artificial intelligence and sentiment analysis, technology has really moved us into a new world of possibilities when it comes to understanding our Customers’ feedback in a variety of formats.  I’ve seen some pretty amazing uses of this new world of business analytics and high-level number-crunching.  The way some software out there [...]

By |2021-09-09T12:45:59+00:00September 1st, 2021|Consulting, CX Strategy, CX Thoughts, VoC|Comments Off on Let’s ask better questions
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